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Trending: Black Photographer J.P. Ball's Enduring Mystique

By David Schonauer   Monday July 21, 2025

Ten years after Louis Daguerre revealed his photographic process, a young man named James Presley Ball brought a daguerreotype camera to Cincinnati. Ball, a free man of color who had learned the inventor’s process in Virginia, would eventually open at least 10 studios in downtown Cincinnati, employing a whole team …

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